Paris Noir 1950-2000 - Exhibition Album

The Centre Pompidou brings together more than eighty artists from Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe who have contributed to the global cultural scene in the second half of the 20th century. Paris Noir offers a unique journey through the Black Atlantic and through crucial periods of radical social and political upheaval. Before the independence movements in Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, post-war Paris became a platform for resistance and emancipation, where intellectual figures such as James Baldwin, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, and Edouard Glissant paved the way for future postcolonial and decolonial thought. The Paris Noir album, designed to reflect the exhibition's journey, serves as the perfect complement to the catalog, which presents numerous additional works not included in the exhibition.